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Aymer II of Angoulême

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Aymer II was Count of Angoulême from 945 to his death in 952.

Family

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Aymer was the illegitimate son of Count William Taillefer I of Angoulême and an unknown concubine. His brother was Count Arnald II Manzer of Angoulême.[1]

Biography

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Aymer first appears in a document dated around 942: in which his father William Taillefer I donated property to the Abbey of Saint-Cybard and the deed of donation was also countersigned by his cousin Bernard, Count of Périgord (Bernardi comitis) and by his son Aymer, (Adhemari comitis filii Guillemi).[2]

He started to co-rule Angoulême with his father from 945 until his death, predeceasing his father.[3]

Aymer did not marry and had no known descendants.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b Alfred Richard, Histoire des Comtes de Poitou, volume I,
  2. ^ Louis Halphen, France: the last Carolingians and the rise of Hugh Capet (888-987) , in «History of the medieval world», vol. II, 1979, pp. 636–661
  3. ^ Historia Pontificum et Comitum Engolismensis, Cap. XVIII. De morte Willelmi.